New Outlook for Windows preview adds support for Gmail accounts

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Published onApril 5, 2023

published onApril 5, 2023

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By now, you know that the new Outlook for Windows application has been in public preview for nearly a year, as the tech giant continues to add new features to the email client.

Today, however, Microsoft announced that the preview version of Outlook for Windows is finally starting to add support for third-party email accounts.

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According to a recentblog post, Microsoft said that they are starting third-party support with the obvious choice, which is Google’s Gmail.

Furthermore, Outlook for Windows users can also get support for Google Calendar and Contacts in the app, a feature that the older Outlook client could not support.

But the good news doesn’t stop here. Pretty soon, the tech giant will also add support for Yahoo and iCloud, as well as the ability to connect your mailbox through IMAP.

Redmond developers stated that it is their intention that every person be able to access all of their emails in one spot, on any Windows 10 or Windows 11 device.

Thus, users can start adding their Gmail account just by choosing theAdd accountoption at the bottom of the folder pane.

Also, they can do the same thing by going toAccounts, then selectingEmail accounts, followed bySettingsto input their Gmail account.

Allegedly, that will also be the case when the other third-party email accounts are supported. Microsoft has also added even more features to the Outlook for Windows preview version, such as:

But wait, there’s more. The tech giant also vouched to add even more features in the near future, some of which we will explore now.

So, before we go thinking that this is all we get, here’s what we can expect from Microsoft:

Needless to say, if you have yet to try out the new version of Outlook for Windows, you can open the current version and simply toggle onTry the new Outlookin the upper right-hand corner of the app.

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